Posting with proper alt text. Imgine being visually impaired clicking through the alt text to see what the letter says and all you get is "letter from JB pritzker" not really useful!

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

When you recall that political reporters ran interference for Trump over his "opposition" to Project 2025, remember that even AT THAT TIME there was a hidden camera interview with Vought where he said that was bullshit and he didn't mean it. www.mediamatters.org/russ-vought/...

Just imagine if Biden or Obama or any other fucking POTUS spoke about fellow Americans like this. If any other POTUS spoke so disparagingly about fellow Americans to our military. Un-fucking-believable that every citizen is not jumping up and demanding his IMMEDIATE resignation. JFC, people.

Trump is going for martial law and he's going to invoke the Insurrection Act to bypass the judges and unleash the military against US cities. He won't stop. Live with @levparnas.bsky.social now thelefthook.substack.com join us

This was literally my exact comment to my partner (substituting "they're" for "we're," & "them" for "us") after watching the news last night - b/c that was literally the argument Trump was making, on the news. These are training exercises designed to get the Nat. Guard used to fighting civilians.

so instead of 'Obamacare' it will be forever known as Trumpdoesn'tcare ?

Drugs treating cancer, epilepsy, & HIV were developed thanks to millions in federal funding for universities. What lifesaving drugs are future patients missing out on due to Trump’s attacks? https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2025/trump-university-research-medicine

I don't have the bandwidth to make this case explicit. But today, Todd Bessent put Frank Bisignano in charge of IRS, in addition to Social Security. Bisignano, at Social Security, gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data. Now he's in charge of IRS.

I’m super jazzed that @amymcgrath.bsky.social is going to run for the OPEN senate seat in Kentucky and that we’ll still have a strong candidate for this race!!! McConnells record is so bad even KY Rs hate him. McGrath says you’re not done fighting, and neither is she.

My guess is that Stephen Miller has been lying to Trump about what's happening in Portland and Chicago in order to satisfy his long time desire to rid the country of melanin. Fox helps, but I'd bet a big part of why Trump is so clueless is that Miller is "handling" Trump to fulfill his own agenda.

Being continually foiled in his efforts to militarize US cities under 10 USC 1206, Trump is now threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act. Can he just get away with it, legally and politically? Looking forward to discussing w/ @jimsciutto.bsky.social on @cnn at 6:35 PM ET.

Acting as judge, jury, and executioner against civilian vessels would lead to war crimes charges with nearly any other country’s leader.

> @governor.ca.gov

“.. Thousands of federal agents once tasked with investigating drug smuggling, sexual exploitation and organized crime have been redirected to immigration enforcement ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

“.. it appears to justify an open-ended war against a secret list of groups, giving the president power to designate drug traffickers as enemy combatants and have them summarily killed without legal review.” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

Nearly 1 in 3 adults with severe long COVID developed an uncommon heart rhythm disorder — most of them middle-aged women — according to Swedish researchers in Circulation: Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/nea...

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act. I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

“.. Beginning at 4:15 p.m. Monday, Hollywood Burbank Airport will have no air traffic controllers in their tower, ABC News has learned.” #Shutdown abc7.com/post/hollywo...

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

Prosecutors Charged Hundreds With Pregnancy-Related Child Abuse Crimes Post-‘Dobbs,’ Research Shows By @elishabrown.bsky.social

BREAKING: Illinois has filed suit to block Trump's deployment of the military to Chicago. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Y’know, in that corporate world they all love so much, if some executive refused to work, they’d be fired. Just sayin’…

Today is Day 6 of the Republican shutdown. Your regular reminders: 1. Republicans control the White House, Senate and House. 2. GOP making deep cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and ACA. 3. Democrats are fighting to lower costs, cancel the cuts and save healthcare for Americans.

The type of regime that uses military-style raids to tear children out of bed in the middle of the night is an authoritarian one. This is a manufactured crisis and an escalation in force and violence that is traumatizing families. Terrifying scenes in Chicago due to ICE.

Ridiculous. And sad.

I may sound partisan but I’m against the criminal administration doing constant armed crime sprees across the nation, constantly, ruining lives and traumatizing and harassing people for fun, idk seems bad

Tolerance of pseudoscience and "alternative facts" is the systems failure driving the harm. The world is warming. Ukraine isn't part of Russia. The 2020 election wasn't stolen. "Evidence Based Medicine" isn't science. Vaccines don't cause autism. You can't "pray away the gay". #Standupforscience

COVID illustrates the future we're rushing towards. Science warned us COVID is airborne in 2020 - pseudoscience wasted our best chance to stop it. Science gave us vaccines - pseudoscience is taking them away. Science foresaw #longCOVID - pseudoscience is fighting to bury its mistakes.

The Supreme Court is poised to overturn 32 state bans on conversion therapy and explicitly legalize the abusive and torturous process. They don't care how many LGBTQ people this traumatizes and kills. www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES petition by Republican Pennsylvania legislators invoking the discredited ISL theory to challenge a pro-voting executive order passed by President Joe Biden along with other Pennsylvania-specific voting policies. www.democracydocket.com/cases/pennsy...

Did you see this case where a guy was guarded for 37 days in a UCLA hospital w/o even being charged? Still unclear whether he is documented or not but they have not charged him. www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/05/4...

*clears throat*: time to re-post the kavanaugh concurrence again!

Storming an apartment complex by helicopter, deploying chemical agents near a public school, handcuffing a city council member at a hospital. Immigration agents are using increasingly combative tactics in Chicago. apnews.com/article/chic...

Norman Bourlag was an Iowan who saved more than one billion lives with his work on disease resistant wheat. There's a reason why Iowa is known for feeding the world: our farmers are top notch. Unfortunately, Ashley Hinson supports policies that are bankrupting them instead of supporting them.

The way the right builds their "violent left" narrative is being hyperreactive to any action by anyone they perceive to be on the left and blasting it all over conservative media while systematically ignoring any violence by the far right. Mainstream media covers the former but barely the latter.

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

“Musk’s data centers will probably bring in only a few hundred jobs to Memphis while consuming millions of gallons of water a day and more electricity than is needed to power all the city’s homes.” 1/2 www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms. Support its work by subscribing now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Sweet Californians, send those ballots back ASAP, so the volunteers don't need to bother with you.

This feels like as a good a time as any to state, once again, that I believe we deserve better than the piss poor social media platforms that currently exist. I have a vision and a passion to prioritize humans over profit. I just need a couple of developers. Pls send anyone interested my way.

Trump tried to end-run a federal judge's ruling blocking the deployment of the Oregon National Guard by sending the *California* National Guard to Portland. A hearing will begin imminently for a judge to decide whether to block him again. Background www.allrisenews.com/p/constituti...

A simple blood test could soon make it possible to screen for breast cancer & identify those high at risk montreal.citynews.ca/2025/10/01/b...

NYT: Trump Sends California National Guard to Portland, Ore. The move came less than a day after a judge blocked the Trump admin attempt to deploy the Oregon National Guard there. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California denounced the move as a “breathtaking abuse of power” and said California would sue.

We do not deploy American forces against Americans in our own cities. Our military is not trained for domestic law enforcement. It’s illegal and un-American.

Ozempic might not exist if RFK Jr had been in charge of NIH in the 1980s—he would have said NIH researchers studying the venom of Gila monsters was wasteful. And millions would still be suffering. Political appointees should not be making decisions about science—they don’t understand how it works!

🚨✊🏼ICE agents OUTNUMBERED by PEOPLE, forced to retreat! Share this! If Chicago can do this, we can ALL do this. 🚨1/2

Congress has not voted since September 19th, and Speaker Johnson cancelled votes AGAIN. And let me tell you why. He doesn’t want to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva — because she would be the final vote needed on the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.

Gavin Newsom with the receipts!